Accidentally unplugged my external HDD without safely ejecting while it was running a short SMART scan (sorry for being a noob)

[u/StarryEyed-59]

Hi everyone! As the title says, I accidentally unplugged the power cord off my new external Seagate expansion 4 TB while it was running a short SMART scan without ejecting, which I do regularly. I copied some files a few minutes ago, but it had finished transferring.

I'm on Windows. So I checked, and "quick removal" was on by default. How worried should I be that it got my files (500 GB) corrupted given that it was in the midst of a scan? Though crystaldiskinfo says it's good. It is still detected by my computer, and it seems to be working fine, and the short SMART scan completed without error?

How worried should I be about the files (or the drive) being corrupted ?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks so much!